DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIES 237 
way, with the first two side branches as opposite deltoid lower 
pinnae, two feet long, and one to two feet broad. Pinnae 
distant, and like the secondary pinnae, pinnules, and lobes, 
all opposite or nearly so. Ultimate pinnae one to two inches 
long, three-quarter inch broad, ovate-lanceolate, and bearing 
six to ten pairs of sessile ovate pinnules, which are cut nearly 
to the rachis into toothed segments bearing a sorus in the 
bottom of each sinus. Frond thinly herbaceous, when young 
bristling with longish spreading jointed glandular hairs on 
both surfaces, especially on the veins and rachis ; but these 
fall off the stipe and rachis as the frond matures, leaving 
rough raised points, while on the veins they become less 
noticeable. This may account for H. aspera Presl, mentioned 
in Syn. Fil. and by Lady Barkly as a form, though the late 
Mr Marquard did have in cultivation a smaller and more 
rigid form found on Table Mountain. In several herbaria 
much-cut barren fronds of Hemitelia capensis from young 
plants are marked H. anthriscifolia Pr., var. aspera . Some 
Natal specimens in Herb. Gub. are almost glabrous. 
Hypolepis sparsisora (Schrad.). Kuhn, Fil. Apr. 120; C. Chr. Index , 
372 . 
Hypolepis anthriscifolia Presl. Pappe and Rawson, 37; Hk. Sp. 2, 
66, tab. 95 a; Wood’s Natal Ferns , 10; Hk. and Bkr, Syn. Fil. 129; 
Sim, Ferns of S. Afr. 1st ed. 76. 
Cheilanthes anthriscifolia. Schl. Adum. 52 (tab. 32, ined.). 
Dicksonia anthriscifolia. Kze, Linn. 10, 545 (?). 
Cheilanthes sparsisora. Schrad. Gott. Anz. 1818, 918; Kze, Linn. 10, 
542; Schl. Adum. 52. 
Hypolepis Eckloniana. F ee. 
Hypolepis aspera Presl. Pappe and Rawson, 38. 
Cheilanthes aspera. Kaulf. Linnaea , 6, 186; Kze, Linnaea , 10, 544. 
Cheilanthes commutata. Kze, Linnaea , 10, 542. 
Hypolepis elata Presl is also stated (Syn. Fil. 129) to belong 
here, though Lady Barkly states that Ch . elata Kze, No. 97 
of Rawson Herb., is H. Bergiana , and Kuhn gives the name 
as a synonym of that species. 
In general appearance it is not unlike the common 
Bracken, but grows in dense masses, in wet sunny glades 
in the forest. 
